gourmet ingredients

Id love to make a basket for my sil for her birthday. She's obsessed with cooking and baking, so I was thinking of adding some gourmet ingredients. Any suggestions? Also where would one purchase these lol (I'm so not a cook)

gourmet ingredients

Sur La Table or Williams Sonoma might have gourmet baking ingredients. For non-baking ingredients, you might want to try Iavarone Brothers in New Hyde Park or Woodbury.

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all the places above poster mentioned are great. Also whole foods and Fairway you can find a ton of gourmet products.

look for truffled honey and salt

whole foods has seasoning by the fish section that looked fantastic when i went the other day. usualy by the cheese/fish/olive bars you can find all the lil gourmet jars of goodies in fairway and wholefoods

gourmet ingredients

Perfect! Thank you

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Also, Penzey's Spices in Carle Place (in the same shopping center with Hale & Hearty) has some really nice and unique spice blends. There's also a Stew Leonard's Wines in the same shopping center.

P.S. This is a very thoughtful gift idea for your SIL.

gourmet ingredients

Also look at TJMaxx, Marshals, and HomeGoods - they sometimes have interesting food/ingredients in their kitchen aisles

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I agree with Penzeys Spices. They have a ton of interesting and gourmet spices and seasonings and oils and baking goods. It would be a good start to look around.

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Love penzeys! Sign up for their mailing lost because they mail u a coupon attaché dot their catalogs. I got a mug and some spice blend mix so far.

gourmet ingredients

Nice idea! I shop for things like this at TJ Maxx and Home Goods.

Some fancy ingredients that I'd love to get in a gift basket (cause they are too expensive to buy everyday) are saffron, real Madagascar or Mexican vanilla beans, fancy olive oils or balsamic vinegars, gourmet sea salts

gourmet ingredients

You can go to an olive oil specialty store and make a basket - they have delicious and interesting oils, balsamic vinegars and salts. I did this and it was a big hit!! I'm obsessed with different olive oils, they have things like bacon, herb infused oils, jalapeño etc!

gourmet ingredients

Thanks for all the great suggestions ladies. I'm so excited! Ive never heard of penzeys and I grew up right around there

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Not really gourmet, but I've made people baskets with different marinades and such from Trader Joes. I know a lot of people like them but don't shop there often because they are often not close by.

Re: gourmet ingredients

I would go to the following places and see what looks interesting and get a variety:

Whole Foods
fairway
Penzys Spices
World Market section of Bed Bath and Beyond
William Sonoma
Crate and Barrel
Sur la table